Learn and Work Smarter
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150. Why Smart Students Hit a Wall (Compensation Strategies That…
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Whether you're a student or a working professional, the Learn and Work Smarter Podcast delivers the clarity, strategies, and encouragement you need to stay focused, organized, and on top of your tasks.
Hosted by Katie Azevedo, M.Ed.—a private executive function coach with 20 years of teaching experience and a deep background in ADHD and cognitive science—this show is your practical guide to building the real-life skills that school and work demand but rarely teach.
Episodes cover a range of topics, including time management, productivity, studying smarter, focus strategies, task initiation, and executive function habits. Each topic is approached through a lens of neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and deep compassion.
You’ll learn systems that are teachable, sustainable, and immediately actionable.
No fluff. No hype. Just real strategies for getting things done, reducing stress, and showing up as the most capable version of yourself.
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- 150. Why Smart Students Hit a Wall (Compensation Strategies That Stop Working) · 39 min · Jakso 150Send me a message!🤓 Did you breeze through school without studying? Write papers the night before and still get glowing comments? Get called bright, gifted, a natural, and…
- 149. F It. Life is Too Short (don't worry, no swears in this one) · 19 min · Jakso 149Send me a message!🤓 This episode is unlike any of the others that I've done. I basically just sat down in front of the mic and gave you a peek inside my own mental chatter. If…
- 148. 5 Note-Taking Myths that Backfire Every Time · 21 min · Jakso 148Send me a message!🤓 The thing about myths is they’re hard to get rid of. Even when we know they’re myths, we still sometimes fall for them. In this episode of the Learn and Work…
- 147. Office, Remote, or Hybrid? Pros, Cons, and the Hidden Skills You Need to Thrive in Each · 40 min · Jakso 147Send me a message!🤓 Most of us know the obvious pros and cons of various work environments. If you work in an office, you have a clear separation of personal and professional…
- 146. How to Make Work Interesting Again and How to Handle "Lazy" Colleagues (Q&A) · 25 min · Jakso 146Send me a message!🤓 Falling out of love with your job and dealing with unmotivated colleagues can make your workday long and have you questioning your career. In this episode of…
- 145. Why Your Shortcuts Are Making Things Harder · 25 min · Jakso 145Send me a message!🤓 Using AI to avoid reading the book. Getting homework answers from a friend just to get the check mark. Building complex automation agents that take weeks to…
- 144. 3 Productivity Traps That Even Smart People Fall For · 26 min · Jakso 144Send me a message!🤓 Automated AI agents that let you nap while your work is done for you, the latest project management software that promises you'll never be overwhelmed…
- 143. 3 Power Moves of Productive People · 17 min · Jakso 143Send me a message!🤓 Productive people aren't productive by accident. Their ability to get the right things done on time – without burning out – is a result of a few particular…
- 142. Handling Work-From-Home Distractions, and Re-Evaluating Grad School (Q&A) · 25 min · Jakso 142Send me a message!🤓 Losing focus midweek when working from home? Debating whether changing grad programs is worth it? In this Q&A episode of the podcast, I answer two questions…
- 141. The 2-Minute Rule: A Productivity Strategy That Really Works ... Until It Doesn’t · 25 min · Jakso 141Send me a message!🤓 The Two-Minute Rule is a popular productivity strategy that's been around since the early 2000s. It can be a terrific tool for feeling less overwhelmed…
- 140. The "Secret Code" to School + Work: Cracking the Unwritten Rules Nobody Talks About · 25 min · Jakso 140Send me a message!🤓 Like it or not, there’s a “secret code” for how to act and what to say at school and work—and not knowing it can cost you opportunities and your reputation…
- 139. The 5 Hardest Lessons I Learned as an Entrepreneur: A Peek Inside the Difficult, Honest Parts of My Business Journey · 29 min · Jakso 139Send me a message!🤓 Starting my own business out of absolutely nothing has been the single greatest professional accomplishment of my life. Every single day, I think about where…
- 138. Planning All Day Study Sessions, and Tips for Job-Hopping (Q&A) · 22 min · Jakso 138Send me a message!🤓 Studying for 12 hours a day? Being a serial job-quitter? In this Q&A episode of the Learn and Work Smarter Podcast, I answer two questions submitted by…
- 137. How to Capture Your Ideas Before You Forget Them (Micro Strategy) · 21 min · Jakso 137Send me a message!🤓 Ideas are only good if we remember them, am I right? Right. So why do we keep telling ourselves that we’ll remember something “later” when we never do? The…
- 136. Productivity Tools Are Useless (Unless You Do This...) · 29 min · Jakso 136Send me a message!🤓 Productivity tools come with big promises. Planners, apps, devices, software…they can all genuinely help you get things done – and they claim to do so. BUT…
- 135. The Effort Trick (That Gets You Everything You Want) · 27 min · Jakso 135Send me a message!🤓 Don’t get me wrong – goals are awesome to have. They can inspire hope and dreams and cool visions we have for our futures. But focusing on the outcome we want…
- 134. Behind-the-Scenes of Real Student Coaching (Sneak Peek Access) · 42 min · Jakso 134Send me a message!🤓 Come peek behind the curtain of SchoolHabits University! Every month inside my signature study skills program, I offer live coaching on Zoom so student never…
- 133. Study Breaks and Finishing Projects Without Deadlines (Q&A) · 22 min · Jakso 133Send me a message!🤓 In this Q&A episode of the Learn and Work Smarter podcast, I answer two questions submitted by listeners of the show. Question One: A student asks for study…
- 132. The DO Date Hack that Makes DUE Dates Easy (Micro-Strategy) · 16 min · Jakso 132Send me a message!🤓 Most people focus on due dates -- as in, this final deadline. But the due date of a project has nothing to do with you actually getting it done. Enter the DO…
- 131. Why We Know What to Do But Still Don't Do It · 35 min · Jakso 131Send me a message!🤓 It’s one thing to know what to do, but it’s a whole other thing to actually DO it. This is a struggle that so many of my private clients – students and…







